Jason Helopoulos

And we're not just relying upon that.

It reinforces that we're coming alongside of them.

It also increases our knowledge of the congregation altogether.

But maybe most importantly, it relieves tons of pastoral issues.

When you are practicing family worship at home, it just relieves a lot of pastoral issues that don't need to bubble up to your pastors and your elders because you're bringing peace to bear in the home because you're worshiping together.

You're working through conflict as you're coming together.

You're praying for one another and bathing one another in the word and prayer, and that has an effect.

So you and I not practicing family worship, it doesn't just rob my own soul.

It doesn't just rob the souls of my family members.

It robs actually from the corporate life of the church.

We want to be built up as a family so that when we go into the church, we are also bleeding into all of these other families, that there's an overflow from us and that they're benefiting.

Family worship helps to do that.

Let me just give you some practical advice about how to practice this.

This is not brain surgery, but this is often where the struggles are at, and just some practical things to help.

One, have the right tools in place.

Have your Bibles out.

If you have kids, every kid has a Bible in their lap.

Everybody has a Bible, so everybody can see the Word there.

And use the Bible.

Use the Bible.